Canada beats U.S. in world hockey championship group play

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9:50 pm PDT, Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Pierre-Luc Dubois scored early to back the goaltending of Matt Murray, sending Canada past the United States 3-0 at the world hockey championship in Slovakia. Both teams were assured quarterfinal berths and were competing for seeding.

Canada won Group A and will play Switzerland next. The Americans, who had five won straight, will face the undefeated Russians on Thursday.

WNBA: Seattle Storm guard Sue Bird needs surgery on her left knee and will be out indefinitely, another big blow for the defending WNBA champs.

Reigning league MVP Breanna Stewart is out for the season after tearing her Achilles tendon and the status of head coach Dan Hughes is unclear after he had surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in his digestive tract.

Soccer: Former U.S. national team defender DaMarcus Beasley says he will retire after 20 years in the professional ranks when the Houston Dynamo finish their season.

Beasley, who turns 37 this week, is the only American to either play in four World Cups or appear in a European Champions League semifinal.

Colleges: Stanford’s women’s golf team fell to Duke 3-2 in the NCAA quarterfinals in Fayetteville, Ark. ... Cal’s Julia Rosenqvist and its doubles team of Rosenqvist and Hana Mraz, as well as Stanford’s Michaela Gordon and its doubles teams of Gordon and Emily Arbuthnott as well as Carolina Lampl and Kimberly Yee, were eliminated at the NCAA tennis championships in Orlando.